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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] xfsqa: xfs_check can see stale cached blocks
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263891792-30952-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263891792-30952-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

Test 017 is consistently failing now because the xfs_check uses
buffered IO to read the block device and 017 runs xfs_check ona
remount,ro filesystem. Hence the block device cache is never
invalidated (the unmount path does this) and so xfs_check can see
stale blocks from previous invocations instead of what is really on
disk at the time it is run.

Manually trash the page cache before running xfs_check to ensure
that the blockdev cache is clean and we don't get false errors
from stale blocks.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
---
 common.rc |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common.rc b/common.rc
index 6424871..896e38d 100644
--- a/common.rc
+++ b/common.rc
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ _scratch_xfs_check()
     SCRATCH_OPTIONS=""
     [ "$USE_EXTERNAL" = yes -a ! -z "$SCRATCH_LOGDEV" ] && \
         SCRATCH_OPTIONS="-l $SCRATCH_LOGDEV"
+    [ "$HOSTOS" = "Linux" ] && echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
     $XFS_CHECK_PROG $SCRATCH_OPTIONS $* $SCRATCH_DEV
 }
 
@@ -931,6 +932,7 @@ _check_xfs_filesystem()
         ok=0
     fi
 
+    [ "$HOSTOS" = "Linux" ] && echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
     $XFS_CHECK_PROG $testoption $extra_log_options $device 2>&1 |\
 	 _fix_malloc >$tmp.fs_check
     if [ -s $tmp.fs_check ]
-- 
1.6.5

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19  9:03 [PATCH 0/3] xfsqa: Fix various test-suite related failures Dave Chinner
2010-01-19  9:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: update 214 golden output Dave Chinner
2010-01-19  9:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-19  9:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfsqa: Fix signal usage in aio-dio test code Dave Chinner
2010-01-19  9:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-19  9:03 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-01-19  9:19   ` [PATCH 3/3] xfsqa: xfs_check can see stale cached blocks Christoph Hellwig

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